VANCOUVER – The aunt of a young Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed on a Mediterranean beach says Canadian government officials have invited her to make another refugee application for one of her brothers and his family.

Tima Kurdi’s application to bring her brother Mohammed Kurdi and his family to Canada was rejected because it didn’t have the necessary paperwork.

Kurdi said an official with Citizenship and Immigration Canada contacted her last week and asked that she reapply for Mohammed.

WATCH: Global News spoke with Tima Kurdi outside of her Coquitlam, B.C. home about news Canadian officials have invited her to resubmit refugee applications for her family.

The government is no longer asking for the difficult-to-obtain United Nations documents needed to satisfy requirements to qualify as a refugee, she said.

But Kurdi said the policy change comes too late to save the wife and two children of her other brother, Abdullah Kurdi. The trio drowned while making the treacherous water crossing from Turkey to Greece.

During the election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Canada should take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end, a pledge Tima Kurdi hopes the incoming prime minister will honour.

She said she would also like to Trudeau to assist in allowing Abdullah to come to Canada.

“I think Abdullah is a special case and he needs help.” she said.

WATCH: Tima Kurdi hopes to speak with Justin Trudeau

Reports from the UN Refugee Agency estimate that 650,000 people have tried to cross the Mediterranean so far this year, with more than 3,000 of them either dead or missing. The majority of the asylum seekers are from Syria.

Kurdi said she returned last week from a trip to the Middle East where she visited Abdullah, who is staying in Erbil, Iraq.

She said her brother is warming up to the possibility of coming to Canada, which he rejected in the immediate aftermath of his family’s deaths.

Kurdi said her brother plans to open a charity under his sons’ names to help other refugee children.